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Show CHINESE GIRL CLAIMS SHE WAS SOLD FOR $C00 WASHINGTON. July 21. A Chincsu girl's mania for 5-cent theaters and not, as she says. $000 in gold, caused Ing Yo mo, imncse merenaiu 01 Washington, to place little Fing Toy. who lived In his household, in the care of Chin Hlng of New York. So said Ing Ye Yue. and his reputation for veracity Is said to be second to none In Washington's Chinatown. "I got no pay." protested 1'ng Wah. the name under which ho conducts a restaurant restau-rant In this city. "Maybe somo day when she gets married I get pay." He added that If she married a friend he would receive nothing. Fing Tov and another girl, Moy Yum Toy, ran away from honiu in Mott street. New York. Wednesday night, and when the pair wero found yesterday by the ChUdren's society. so-ciety. Fing Toy said she hud been sold Into bondage. lug Ye Yue having received $U00 for her. The latter denied the girl's story iuhI said he took tho girl to New York because she would not remain at home. He brought her from China, he. added, to be company for his wife, who has returned to China on a visit. According Ac-cording to tho irirl's story. Yue's son bought her for 5 1 CO and Yue sold her to Chin 1 1 Ing because he said he was going back to China. "She went crazy about the moving picture pic-ture shows." continued Yue. "She no wanL to stay In house. Go awav from home at night, so I had to send her away to a friend." |